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...Montmartre to Montparnasse. This harrowing revelation that British children yet unborn would pay for their father's absinthe drinking could never have passed His Majesty's censor had not the Times been privileged to announce simultaneously that the French Government was banning and prohibiting le diable vert (the green devil). Last week, after 19 years, all Europe was startled by persistent re ports of fresh absinthe deviltry in Paris...
...Europe most connoisseurs take their green devil in the form of an "absinthe drip." Sugar is placed in a special absinthe spoon pierced with holes which is held above a tall glass. Some begin by putting absinthe in the glass, pouring water over the sugar. Others begin with water in the glass, pour absinthe over the sugar and achieve the same effect, a cloudy, greenish, diluted drink. Only fools sip absinthe straight...
When the mixture fumed and sputtered like a devil's cauldron, Wallace Foreman realized his error. He bellowed. Seven other men came running, hastily agreed that 9 gal. of nitroglycerin had been inadvertently manufactured. Nine ounces, they knew, was enough to blow them to bits. There was a mad rush for telephones...
...remark that "The Pacific Coast is still generations closer to frontier days than any other part of the country," and "Labor, too, has still something of the devil-may-care spirit of the dance halls and the lumber camps...
...Judge, we heard that you're going to pass sentence Sept. 6, and of course that will be a hell of a big news break and we'll have to work like the devil, and, well, as a matter of fact Geno and I had figured on getting married that day and our plans...